!!!Frontkämpfervereinigung Deutsch-Österreichs

Frontkaempfervereinigung Deutsch-Oesterreichs (German-Austrian 
Association of War Veterans), organisation of front soldiers of the 
Imperial and Royal (k. u. k.) Army founded in 1920 by H.  Hiltl; 
relatively small paramilitary right-wing association (1933: 
2,000-3,000 members), a large percentage were officers; the 
organisation functioned as an antisemitic, antimarxist and 
antidemocratic protection unit present at Christian Socialist and 
National Socialist demonstrations. The organisation became 
historically significant due to the clashes in Schattendorf in 1927, 
where two members of the front soldiers' organisation were killed. The 
perpetrators were brought to trial but were acquitted, which triggered 
the great demonstration on July 15, 1927 and the burning of the 
Ministry of Justice building. The Frontkaempfervereinigung 
Deutsch-Oesterreichs was dissolved in 1935. A portion of its formers 
members joined the ranks of the then illegal National Socialist Party.

!Literature
I. Messerer, Die 
Frontkaempfervereinigung Deutsch-Oesterreichs, doctoral thesis, 
Vienna 1964.


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